Local energy decay for the nonlinear dissipative wave equation in an exterior domain (Q2466281)

The paper deals with the exterior Dirichlet problem to the equation \(u_{tt}-\Delta u+a(x)f(u_t)=0\) in odd-dimensional space, where \(a\) is a nonnegative function with a compact support and \(f\) is a nondecreasing function. Under some assumptions on \(a\) and \(f\) the decay of the local energy of the solution is proved.